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Tool Stacks of Highly Effective Startups and People
[Includes software and non-software tools](#h.2dof38rdf1pp), e.g. workflows, management frameworks. #connectordoc #curatedlist .
[Contribute at the top of “Inbox ” section or Real Startups’ Toolstacks section](#h.gkqpt664ydx)!
Corey Nobile (ODS)
stack
- https://synosearch.com/ (AI search for good research literature)
Adam Reis
Rippling for HR/IT management, Carta, loads of GSuite (HIPAA compliant, so we put lots of stuff there that other companies might put in email/slack), Notion (although very redundant with how we use gdocs right now - haven’t quite figured this out), Trello (thinking of switching to Linear or Asana soon), Metabase for BI (just setting up now), going to set up Lever or Ashby as a recruiting ATS/CRM in the coming weeks, HIPAA compliant Zoom, Slack, Nick and I use Superhuman,
That’s the short version; let me know if you have any questions about how we use specific tools!
Brandon T
the company used: definitely notion for org knowledge store (onboarding, design specs (explained from a figma/sketch file), roadmapping, general writings, RFCs, GTM, etc. etc.). we used clubhouse (jira alternative), metabase, slack, carta, amplitude, segment, loom, probably some other tools i'm forgetting about
David Ernst
I use Google Docs/Sheets heavily, don’t use Notion, Carta, or linear.app currently
New parts of Shadi’s stack:
Monday.com for team task management, Atom teletype for pair programming, Pastel for leaving design feedback on live pages.
Anthony (Namebase)
Hey! Sure, we stopped using notion like 18mos ago since the web UI got prohibitively slow when we started to have bigger / more complicated docs. We're forced to port everything to Google docs then, which we still use. Maybe they've fixed their perf issues now but back then it was not tolerable
For code pairing we'll ssh into a server with a tmux session, which achieves this --^, but there are some issues (no multiple cursors) so it doesn't quite solve the problem. High barrier to get started too
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| 1 | https://founderkit.com/ | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 2 | https://capiche.com/ | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 3 | Capiche is a repository of information and discussions about the software we use to get things done. Instead of relying on agenda-driven sales, marketing, and customer success teams, we can rely on each other. | — | — |
Read-only v0. To edit an item, click its content to open the focused page. Column resize, sort, inline edit, and the per-list item_schema editor are tracked under ticket 1z3.
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| 4 | What split inboxes do you use in Superhuman? | capiche.com | — | — | inherit | — |
| 5 | #book The Great CEO Within: The Tactical Guide to Company Building Kindle Edition | www.amazon.com | — | — | inherit | — |
| 6 | Lawyer | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 7 | Bank account (Mercury recommended by AbstractOps (over Chase, SVB, First Republic, etc.) | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 8 | Services that are more or less commoditized | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 9 | Bookkeeper, payroll, designer (Fiverr and Upwork offer great contracted design services) | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 10 | Landing page not super important early on | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 11 | Engr | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 12 | http://codingchallenge.jacobcole.net/ | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 13 | Interview Flow from Binc | docs.google.com | — | — | inherit | — |
| 14 | Chief of Staff | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 15 | #todo #private Interview Guide for Chief of Staff | docs.google.com | — | — | inherit | — |
| 16 | Tabs Outliner | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 17 | 1Tab | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 18 | Quick Tabs (search/switch tabs) | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 19 | Hunter: Find email addresses in seconds | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 20 | GSuite Tricks | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 22 | Support | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 23 | Sales | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 24 | Info | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 26 | Make notifications@ideapad.io a user not a group | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 27 | Preventing read receipts in Superhuman | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 28 | Command + K → Image settings → block all tracking pixels | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 30 | Drip campaign tools | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 31 | https://www.persistiq.com/ | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 32 | https://vocus.io/ <> mike’s friend | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 33 | https://www.streak.com/ – now fairly expensive | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 34 | Mailchimp +1 ~JM | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 35 | # | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 36 | Slack, Figma+Sketch, G-Suite, Zoom, namecheap.com (not great UI), name.com (slightly better, but still imperfect UI, more expensive) | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 38 | Magic Virtual Assistant service (used to send NDAs, pay parking tickets and simple tasks. Only somewhat competent, but cheap & mostly but not perfectly reliable on basic things) | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 39 | DocuSign for legal document templates, sending out employment contracts, etc. (Hellosign may have better UI) | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 41 | Linear.app for Eng task management, Notion for specs. React, Typescript, VSCode/IntelliJ IDE, Logrocket, Firestore + AWS/MySQL, Github. Vercel for deployments | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 42 | Medium for blog | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 43 | Logging | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 44 | Matomo - for user analytics, moved off of google analytics | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 45 | Sentry - Errors | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 46 | Thistle.co for healthy meal delivery. Mealsquares.com, Owyn (Tumeric “Mylk” - protein/meal shakes). | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 47 | Jarvis standing desk (with FluidStance balance board & Sidekick rolling locking cushioned file cabinet, exercise ball for sitting), Roost portable laptop stand | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 48 | Tile for finding things (laptop, car keys, backpack) | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 49 | Accelerators: StartX (Applied/accepted as non-Stanford founder. Turned down YC) | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 50 | FoundersPledge - supportive community | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 51 | Leadership/Employee Development: Nonviolent Communications/CLG (Conscious Leadership Group) | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 52 | First Round Mentors, StartX Mentors. MIT VMS (Venture Mentoring Services) Mentors | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 53 | Management | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 54 | - [nvctranslator.com](http://nvctranslator.com/) - Translate Any Text into NVC – Nonviolent Communication | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 55 | - Learning NVC | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 56 | - Learning CLG (Conscious Leadership Group) Principles | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 57 | We're using Notion for our docs, although we used Quip until last month, I forgot why we switched. | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 58 | We use Carta for stock grants too. | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 59 | Azure for cloud infrastructure and deployment. | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 60 | Github for codebase management. | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 61 | Mailchimp for newsletters. | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 62 | That's about it for now, but we'll keep adding more as we progress in the startup. | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 63 | Internal Comms | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 64 | Slack, GSuite | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 65 | Customer Support | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 66 | Zendesk, Intercom (eventually dropped) | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 67 | Customer/Potential Customer Comms | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 68 | Mailchimp, Twitter | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 69 | Ops | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 70 | Gusto, Metabase | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 71 | Internal Comms | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 72 | Slack, GSuite | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 73 | Ops | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 74 | Gusto, Segment, Heap, Brex | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 75 | Customer Comms | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 76 | Mailchimp, Mailgun, Twitter, Slack | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 77 | Monday.com for team task management, Atom teletype for pair programming, Pastel for leaving design feedback on live pages. | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 78 | https://mocharymethod.org/ | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 79 | pocket evernote zoom grammarly adblock lastpass docsend vocus (later:) hubspot. | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 80 | Carta (also does 409A) – $6k+ / yr | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 81 | https://captable.io/ | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 82 | https://pulley.com/ | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 83 | [Screen.so](http://screen.so) - Really good remote mouse pairing/double mouse controlling from the screen hero guys | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 84 | Notion.so - For team wiki (some UX complaints, but is useful to have even if you have G-Suite) | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 85 | Standard Stuff: | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 86 | Slack | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 87 | G-Suite - Google drive, gmail, etc for enterprise | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 88 | Figma - For design. Lacks certain drawing features, like magic wand, so you still need sketch and/or photoshop on the side | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 89 | Airtable - FYI, good for dashboard for presentation purposes & visual links between shared tags | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 90 | Post on http://hiringlist.jacobcole.net/ | hiringlist.jacobcole.net | — | — | inherit | — |
| 91 | Post on http://angel.co/ | angel.co | — | — | inherit | — |
| 92 | Small Co | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 93 | Lever.co – not needed if hiring through your network (#ats applicant tracking system) | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 94 | Or Greenhouse.io #ats | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 95 | Triplebyte – was good a few years ago, may suck now | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 96 | Good for after the first few hires: | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 97 | [Up and Coming: Dover https://www.dover.io/](https://www.dover.io/) – | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 98 | [Maybe https://www.turing.com/](https://www.turing.com/) #remote? | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 99 | Generally don’t recommend retained recruiting services for early stage – really #doubledown on going through your network | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 100 | ParkerRemick.com (esp. For executive recruiting / later stage but can also do principal engineer. #expensive. $100k for 6 mo search for 1 hire. Less for add-on hires) | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 101 | https://www.bincsearch.com/ – worked well for some people to find principal engineers. Varies depending on quality of your recruiter there. ~$20k/mo. | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 102 | As of Jun 2020, Webflow.com is best for no-code or semi-no-code editing | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 103 | Webpage screen capture #tool: Full Page Screen Capture | chrome.google.com | — | — | inherit | — |
| 104 | Google Sheets | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 105 | Beautiful.ai | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 106 | [Looka](https://looka.com/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIkpq_luyo6gIVzsDACh2NxgnKEAAYAiAAEgLvrfD_BwE) - Awesome automatic logo generator with AI | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 107 | Invision App - For sharing moodboards. Google docs also works ok for this | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 108 | Figma - For design. Lacks certain drawing features, like magic wand, so you still need sketch and/or photoshop on the side | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 109 | Photopea - browser based graphics editor (strong parity with Photoshop) | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 110 | Vercel.com (Formerly Zeit) - Allows you to easily make PHP-style webpages with JavaScript and generally fixes a lot of modern issues with frontend development | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 111 | Retool.com - | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 112 | Logrocket - Logs the exact state of the application in a user session | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 113 | Cloud App - Really quickly create and share quick gifs of what’s on your screen and/or screenshots with a link | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 114 | ### | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 115 | Buy 10+ reehut or other yoga blocks for ergonomics (can prop up laptop for video calls, prop up your elbows for using your phone and do many other things) | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 116 | Roost portable laptop stand | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 117 | Ergodocs EZ split keyboard on mounted with rubberbands to metal vertical kinesis freestyle keyboard (tent) kit to make it vertical. | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 118 | Rsiwiki.jacobcole.net | rsiwiki.jacobcole.net | — | — | inherit | — |
| 119 | Anker charging brick #t lookup on amazon & donglehub for newer macbook | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 120 | Danish | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 121 | My current stack is as follows | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 123 | 1. Obsidian | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 124 | 2. SideKick | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 125 | 3. Todoist for fast todos everywhere. 4. Maybe a few times a week: notion for managing blocks related to projects/project management (esp. Timelines!). | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 126 | Ilya Gulko | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 128 | “Show me how good it can get, Universe!” | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 129 | qutebrowser | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 130 | IntelliJ | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 131 | Pollyanna Framework, ex: flyerian.com, ilyagulko.com, shitmyself.com (human/human), 26-110.com | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 132 | Alan Indie Hacker | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 133 | Web Prototyping / Boilerplates | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 134 | https://tailwindui.com/components/marketing/page-examples/landing-pages | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 135 | https://www.fontshare.com/fonts/satoshi | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 136 | NextJS | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 137 | Vedant | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 138 | Startup: | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 139 | PostHog for user tracking | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 140 | Ilya M | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 141 | Streaks - habit tracker | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 142 | Jack J | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 143 | Loom.com | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 144 | Ublock Origin | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 145 | Allen L | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 146 | Next.js | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 147 | shadcn/ui | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 148 | v0.dev | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 149 | PostHog | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 150 | ADHD | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 151 | https://www.focusmate.com/ | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 152 | [Chiropractic adjustment, esp nonforce](https://www.santacruznonforcechiropractors.com/what-is-dnft-) chiropractic | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 153 | Software | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 154 | quickey | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 155 | Tourettes | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 156 | Channeling tics as kundalini activation #WIP | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 157 | [Channel with qigong http://qigong.garden/](http://qigong.garden/) #WIP | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 158 | Release with Svaroopa Yoga svaroopa.org | svaroopa.org | — | — | inherit | — |
| 159 | Stuttering | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 160 | Wayne Cooke Posture | www.youtube.com | — | — | inherit | — |
| 161 | Aspergers, Introversion | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 162 | [Algorithm for Real Empathy: Learn NVC (Nonviolent Communication](https://www.amazon.com/Nonviolent-Communication-Language-Life-Changing-Relationships/dp/189200528X)) | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 163 | http://nvctranslator.com/ | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 164 | Intro video | www.youtube.com | — | — | inherit | — |
| 165 | Bipolar | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 166 | Meditating with Lawrence Levy & Segyu Rinpoche | www.juniperpath.org | — | — | inherit | — |
| 167 | The Neurodiverse Startup Ecosystem resource list | docs.google.com | — | — | inherit | — |
| 168 | Justin Goldman Accelerated Empathy | — | — | — | inherit | — |